Matt Michaud's Workshop

While the shop is actually clean, I figured I should take this chance to post some pictures and share. Our house is a small 20×23, two levels. The shop is the lower level and consists of the woodshop, a clean room, and a utility room for the house. We (my girlfriend and I) use the shop to make carbon fiber sporting goods – mostly skis and longboards. Because composites produce some pretty nasty dust, considerable effort went into setting up an effective dust collection system. The system starts with a Grizzly G0440 (2HP) with a modified filter stack. You can check out our page if you are interested in more details about the dust collection system.

So to fit all of these with sufficient outfeeds, we had to get a little creative with machine locations. By hanging the cyclone extra high (and extending the bin hose) stock can pass by the narrow lower portion of the cyclone.

The bigger impact though was in setting up the bandsaw’s outfeed. A removable “bridge” connects the bandsaw and chopsaw hood for generous outfeed when resawing.

Finally, more on the layup/clean room once we finish building the vacuum press table.